Scrap the tax code

GE again. The diversified conglomerate is likely to spend big bucks on lobbyists as the battle to reshape the U.S. tax code heats up. In December, President Barack Obama started negotiating with Republicans to extend unemployment benefits in exchange for tax cuts, and that’s when the tax commandos sprang into action. Read the full story at BusinessWeek.com

Absolutely correct! To be a citizen of this country, each must bear some responsibility, along with their right to reap the benefits. When one group feels entitled to be supported by another group, they suppose dominion over that group, i. e. the supporting group is enslaved to them. It was wrong a century and a half ago when slaves supported the land owners, and our current form of socialistic wealth transference is just as wrong. This perverted sense of entitlement has to end. Everyone must contribute.

We have a reverse plutocracy where the poor rule the wealthy through a symbiotic political class proxy that panders to them to maintain their power. (Yeah, I know that may be a bit of a stretch, but it has an element of truth.)